{"id":10190,"date":"2025-07-21T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10190\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:11:08","slug":"incredibly-sad-john-oliver-on-late-show-axing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10190\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Incredibly sad&#8221;: John Oliver on Late Show axing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;It&#8217;s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy,&#8221; says Last Week Tonight host.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John Oliver is the latest to weigh in on the cancellation of\u00a0 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n<p>Both Oliver and Colbert served as correspondents on The Daily Show, although not at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I love Stephen, I love his staff, I love that show \u2013 it\u2019s incredibly sad,\u201d the Last Week Tonight host said. \u201cI\u2019m partly excited to see what they\u2019re gonna do for the next 10 months. It\u2019s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate-night shows mean a lot to me, not just because I work in them, because even growing up in England, I would watch Letterman\u2019s show, which of course was Stephen\u2019s show, and think about what a glamorous world that was,\u201d he said. \u201cSo to have got to have been on Letterman\u2019s show and Stephen\u2019s show was always one of the most fun things. So it\u2019s very, very, very sad news. I look forward to seeing what [Colbert is] gonna do next because that man will not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will wrap in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753078268_288_loading.gif\"\/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-oliver-late-show-stephen-colbert-cancellation-sad-1236324435\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy,&#8221; says Last Week Tonight host. John Oliver is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-10190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}